Richard C. Willson

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. The effectiveness of three multi-component binding models in describing the binary competitive equilibrium adsorption of two cytochrome b5 mutants
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 1144, no. 2, pp. 197–202, 2007
  2. Universal bacterial identification by mass spectrometry of 16S ribosomal RNA cleavage products
    International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, vol. 261, no. 2-3, pp. 218–226, 2007
  3. Characterization of Escherichia coli MG1655 grown in a low-shear modeled microgravity environment
    BMC Microbiology, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 15, 2007
  4. Probing the Functional Heterogeneity of Surface Binding Sites by Analysis of Experimental Binding Traces and the Effect of Mass Transport Limitation
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 1742–1758, 2006
  5. BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 117, 2006
  6. BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 321, 2006
  7. Human-blind probes and primers for dengue virus identification. Exhaustive analysis of subsequences present in the human and 83 dengue genome sequences
    FEBS Journal, vol. 273, no. 2, pp. 398–408, 2006
  8. The Effect of the Transit of Venus on ACRIM’s Total Solar Irradiance Measurements: Implications for Transit Studies of Extrasolar Planets
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 641, no. 1, pp. 565–571, 2006
  9. Biotechnology Progress, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 519–522, 2006
  10. A parallel computing algorithm for 16S rRNA probe design
    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 1546–1551, 2006
  11. Neutral additives enhance the metal-chelate affinity adsorption of nucleic acids: Role of water activity
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 1115, no. 1-2, pp. 88–92, 2006
  12. Water-elutability of nucleic acids from metal-chelate affinity adsorbents: enhancement by control of surface charge density
    Journal of Molecular Recognition, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 348–353, 2006
  13. Comparison of cyanide-degrading nitrilases
    Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 327–335, 2005
  14. Preparative Electrophoresis with On-column Optical Fiber Monitoring and Direct Elution into a Minimized Volume
    Biotechnology Letters, vol. 27, no. 22, pp. 1739–1743, 2005
  15. Competitive ion-exchange adsorption of proteins: Competitive isotherms with controlled competitor concentration
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 1079, no. 1-2, pp. 116–126, 2005
  16. Nucleotide modification at the  -phosphate leads to the improved fidelity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase
    Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 33, no. 15, pp. 4865–4873, 2005
  17. Water molecules in the antibody–antigen interface of the structure of the Fab HyHEL-5–lysozyme complex at 1.7 Å resolution: comparison with results from isothermal titration calorimetry
    Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 628–633, 2005
  18. Biotechnology Progress, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1472–1477, 2005
  19. Effect of an Artificial RNA Marker on Gene Expression in Escherichia coli
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 4156–4159, 2005
  20. Phylogenetic Analysis of Polyomavirus Simian Virus 40 from Monkeys and Humans Reveals Genetic Variation
    Journal of Virology, vol. 78, no. 17, pp. 9306–9316, 2004
  21. Biotechnology Letters, vol. 25, no. 13, pp. 1111–1116, 2003
  22. Solar Physics, vol. 215, no. 1, pp. 5–16, 2003
  23. Purification and properties of 2-hydroxy-6-oxo-6-(2'-aminophenyl)hexa-2,4-dienoic acid hydrolase involved in microbial degradation of carbazole
    Protein Expression and Purification, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 182–189, 2003
  24. Compaction agent clarification of microbial lysates
    Protein Expression and Purification, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 220–223, 2003
  25. Purification and characterization of 2'aminobiphenyl-2,3-diol 1,2-dioxygenase from Pseudomonas sp. LD2
    Protein Expression and Purification, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 35–43, 2003
  26. Biotechnology Progress, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 982–986, 2003
  27. Biotechnology Progress, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1329–1334, 2003
  28. Biotechnology Progress, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 734–738, 2003
  29. Spermine compaction is an efficient and economical method of producing vaccination-grade DNA
    Journal of Immunological Methods, vol. 274, no. 1-2, pp. 257–264, 2003
  30. Hybridization-responsive fluorescent DNA probes containing the adenine analog 2-aminopurine
    Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 322, no. 1, pp. 124–126, 2003
  31. Enhancement of anion-exchange chromatography of DNA using compaction agents
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 984, no. 2, pp. 215–221, 2003
  32. CynD, the Cyanide Dihydratase from Bacillus pumilus: Gene Cloning and Structural Studies
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 4794–4805, 2003
  33. Microbial identification by immunohybridization assay of artificial RNA labels
    Journal of Microbiological Methods, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 301–306, 2002
  34. Immunochemical pulsed-labeling characterization of intermediates during hen lysozyme oxidative folding
    Protein Science, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 2584–2595, 2002
  35. Identification of characteristic oligonucleotides in the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA sequence dataset
    Bioinformatics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 244–250, 2002
  36. Development of an effective gene delivery system: a study of complexes composed of a peptide-based amphiphilic DNA compaction agent and phospholipid
    Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 29, no. 17, pp. 3694–3704, 2001
  37. Effects of activity complexes and active longitudes on variations in total solar irradiance
    Astronomy Letters, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 451–454, 2001
  38. Microbial Detection with Low Molecular Weight RNA
    Current Microbiology, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 444–447, 2001
  39. RNA Isolation and Fractionation with Compaction Agents
    Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 295, no. 2, pp. 143–148, 2001
  40. Optimization of a Peptide/Non-cationic Lipid Gene Delivery System for Effective Microinjection into Chicken Embryo in Vivo
    Molecular Therapy, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 66–74, 2001
  41. Expression of Marker RNAs in Pseudomonas putida
    Current Microbiology, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 91–95, 2000
  42. Boronate affinity adsorption of RNA: possible role of conformational changes
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 840, no. 2, pp. 205–213, 1999
  43. Biotechnology Letters, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 87–90, 1999
  44. Salt Links Dominate Affinity of Antibody HyHEL-5 for Lysozyme through Enthalpic Contributions
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 274, no. 38, pp. 26838–26842, 1999
  45. Cloning, expression, and characterization of the Fab fragment of the anti-lysozyme antibody HyHEL-5
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, vol. 1430, no. 2, pp. 191–202, 1999
  46. Biochemistry, vol. 38, no. 14, pp. 4409–4415, 1999
  47. Time-frequency analysis of total solar irradiance variations
    Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 26, no. 24, pp. 3613–3616, 1999
  48. Nature Biotechnology, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 822–823, 1999
  49. Microbial denitrogenation of fossil fuels
    Trends in Biotechnology, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 390–395, 1998
  50. Association of the anti-hen egg lysozyme antibody HyHEL-5 with avian species variant and mutant lysozymes
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, vol. 1340, no. 2, pp. 205–214, 1997
  51. Total Solar Irradiance Trend During Solar Cycles 21 and 22 
    Science, vol. 277, no. 5334, pp. 1963–1965, 1997
  52. Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 30, no. 8, pp. 2478–2483, 1996
  53. Refined structures of Bobwhite quail lysozyme uncomplexed and complexed with the HyHEL-5 Fab fragment
    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 55–65, 1996
  54. VIRGO: Experiment for helioseismology and solar irradiance monitoring
    Solar Physics, vol. 162, no. 1-2, pp. 101–128, 1995
  55. Preferred high-performance liquid chromatographic anion-exchange chromatographic contact region for recombinant rat cytochrome b5
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 704, no. 2, pp. 339–349, 1995
  56. Microcalorimetric characterization of the anion-exchange adsorption of recombinant cytochrome b5 and its surface-charge mutants
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 715, no. 1, pp. 81–93, 1995
  57. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 33, pp. 8511–8516, 1995
  58. Biochemistry, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 3584–3590, 1994
  59. Bacteriophage Surface Display of an Immunoglobulin–binding Domain of Staphylococcus aureus Protein A
    Bio/Technology, vol. 12, no. 2, Article ID nbt0294-169, 3 pages, 1994
  60. Presence of a preferred anion-exchange binding site on cytochrome b5: structural and thermodynamic considerations
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 684, no. 1, pp. 55–63, 1994
  61. Long-term variations in total solar irradiance
    Solar Physics, vol. 152, no. 1, pp. 13–21, 1994
  62. A practical approach to biosurfactant production using nonaseptic fermentation of mixed cultures
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 661–666, 1994
  63. Improving protein extraction yield in reversed micellar systems through surface charge engineering
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 773–780, 1994
  64. Adsorption Heterogeneity and Thermodynamic Driving Forces in Anion Exchange Equilibria of Cytochrome b5
    Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 167, no. 1, pp. 1–7, 1994
  65. Anion-exchange chromatographic behavior of recombinant rat cytochrome b5 Thermodynamic driving forces and temperature dependence of the stoichiometric displacement parameter Z
    Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 653, no. 2, pp. 207–218, 1993
  66. Measurement of translational accuracy in vivo: missense reporting using inactive enzyme mutants
    Biochimie, vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 1567–1572, 1991
  67. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 290–293, 1991
  68. The Sun's luminosity over a complete solar cycle
    Nature, vol. 351, no. 6321, Article ID 351042a0, 2 pages, 1991
  69. Esterification-coupled extraction of organic acids: Partition enhancement and underlying reaction and distribution equilibria
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 909–915, 1989
  70. Phase equilibria in ternary systems with carbon dioxide, water and carboxylic acids at elevated pressures
    Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 321–327, 1988
  71. Measurements of solar total irradiance and its variability
    Space Science Reviews, vol. 38, no. 3-4, 1984
  72. Upper limits on the total radiant energy of solar flares
    Solar Physics, vol. 86, no. 1-2, pp. 123–130, 1983
  73. Characterization of the transport and dispersion of pollutants in a narrow mountain valley region by means of an atmospheric tracer
    Atmospheric Environment (1967), vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1633–1647, 1983
  74. The effects of sunspots on solar irradiance
    Solar Physics, vol. 76, no. 2, 1982
  75. Solar total irradiance observations by Active Cavity Radiometers
    Solar Physics, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 217–229, 1981
  76. Active cavity radiometer type IV
    Solar Physics, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 109–109, 1980
  77. New radiometric techniques and solar constant measurements
    Solar Energy, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 203–211, 1973